[Tfug] Machine Rehabilitation

[Andrew Ayre]

Well, in my defense I will point out that I'm about to ditch my Gentoo box
for a Ubuntu box with faster CPU and more ram. My Gentoo box couldn't run
SugarCRM at a usable speed...

Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of
Claude Rubinson
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:28 AM
To: tfug at tfug.org
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Machine Rehabilitation


On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:03:40AM -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> On 06/12/2007 09:32 AM, Andrew Ayre wrote:
> > Other "features" of Gentoo are that you build your system only
> > with the specific software and services that you want. Also by
> > default many options in the Kernel are disabled. I didn't
> > realise this until I needed to set up a firewall. However it's
> > easy to enable kernel options and there are lots of Gentoo
> > howtos. But the general philosophy is that with Gentoo you can
> > have a system that only contains what you want.
>
> I see nothing listed that is unique to Gentoo. Just take a look
> at Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Slackware, LFS.

Not trolling as I've never used Gentoo but whenever discussions of
Gentoo come up, I'm always reminded of one of my favorite sites on the
'net.  Sadly it appears dead and now only available via the Wayback
machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060306002734/http://www.funroll-loops.org/

Claude

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